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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Forever WarDexter FilkinsProvides a firsthand account of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, from the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, offering a study of the people involved from all sides of the confl...Amazon2008 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistFrom Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776George C. HerringAmazonThe Dark SideJane MayerAmazonThis Republic of Suffering: Death and the Civil WarDrew Gilpin FaustAmazonWhite Protestant NationAllan LichtmanAmazon

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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerHalf the World in LightJuan Felipe HerreraNow, in this unprecedented collection, we encounter the trajectory of this highly innovative and original writer, bringing the full scope of his singular vision into view....Amazon2008 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistSleeping It Off in Rapid CityAugust KleinzahlerAmazonHuman Dark With SugarBrenda ShaughnessyAmazonSourcesDevin JohnstonAmazonThe LandscapistPierre Martory (trans. John Ashbery)Amazon

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerCheever: A LifeBlake BaileyJohn Cheever was one of the foremost chroniclers of post-war America, a peerless writer who on his death in 1982 left some of the best short stories of the twentieth century, a number of highly acclaimed novels, and a private journal that runs to an astoni...Amazon2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistBitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio SiloneStanislao G. PuglieseAmazonFlannery: A Life of Flannery O’ConnorBrad GoochAmazonPassing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color LineMartha A. SandweissAmazonWhy This World: A Biography of Clarice LispectorBenjamin MoserAmazon

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerNotes From No Man’s Land: American EssaysEula BissWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize Acclaimed for its frank and fascinating investigation of racial identity, and reissued on its ten-year anniversary, Notes from No Man’s Land begins...Amazon2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistClose Calls with Nonsense: Reading New PoetryStephen BurtAmazonDancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great DepressionMorris DicksteinAmazonHeroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and CultureDavid HajduAmazonPerfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded MusicGreg MilnerAmazon

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerWolf HallHilary MantelEngland in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe oppose him. The ...Amazon2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistAmerican SalvageBonnie Jo CampbellAmazonBlameMichelle HunevenAmazonLark and TermiteJayne Anne PhillipsAmazonThe Book of Night WomenMarlon JamesAmazon

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of ScienceRichard HolmesThe Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 176...Amazon2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistFordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle CityGreg GrandinAmazonImperialWilliam T. VollmannAmazonStrength in What RemainsTracy KidderAmazonThe Hindus: An Alternative HistoryWendy DonigerAmazon

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerVersedRae ArmantroutWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2010) Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (2009) Rae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences together, off...Amazon2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistA Village LifeLouise GlückAmazonCaptive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960–2008Eleanor Ross TaylorAmazonChronicD.A. PowellAmazonMuseum of AccidentsRachel ZuckerAmazon

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2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerHow To Live: Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an AnswerSarah BakewellHow to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and exper...Amazon2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistCharlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American HistoryYunte HuangAmazonSimon Wiesenthal: The Life and LegendsTom SegevAmazonThe Killing of Crazy HorseThomas PowersAmazonThe Secret Lives of Somerset MaughamSelina HastingsAmazon

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2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerLyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the WestClare CavanaghLyric Poetry and Modern Politics explores the intersection of poetry, national life, and national identity in Poland and Russia, from 1917 to the present. As a corrective to recent trends in criticism, acclaimed translator and critic Clare Cavanagh demonst...Amazon2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistThe Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political ViolenceSusie LinfieldAmazonThe Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read ThemElif BatumanAmazonThe Professor and Other WritingsTerry CastleAmazonVanishing Point: Not a MemoirAnder MonsonAmazon

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2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerA Visit from the Goon SquadJennifer EganJennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader d...Amazon2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistComedy in a Minor Key, tr. by Damion SearlsHans KeilsonAmazonFreedomJonathan FranzenAmazonSkippy DiesPaul MurrayAmazonTo the End of the LandDavid GrossmanAmazon